'Once you started anything in Professor Branestawm's house you never knew when i
t might finish or even if it ever would' Poor Mrs Flittersnoop! It's not easy be
ing Professor Branestawm's housekeeper. People may say he's a genius, but all hi
s inventions always make life more complicated, alarming and extraordinary than
it was before. An innocent bottle of old cough mixture turns out to be an elixir
that makes all the waste paper in the bin come to life, the burglar-catcher and
the pancake-maker operate just a little too efficiently, and about the spring-c
leaning machine, the less said the better.
